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...would have been reconciled with the Senate bill, in a form that included some aid to the contras. Republicans, heeding White House wishes, also voted against the bill, and it went down to defeat by a lopsided 303 to 123. Summed up Britain's Economist: "Concession, compromise, confusion--and rebuff...
...standoff. Rejecting the opposition's call for a boycott, almost 53% of the country's 35 million eligible voters went to the polls, compared with 59% in 1970 and about 57% in 1977. But in selecting the 209 members of the new National Assembly, the voters dealt a rebuff to Zia by defeating six members of his Cabinet, including Defense Minister Ali Ahmad Talpur...
...decade after Svetlana left Taliesin West, she tried to make a fresh start in several towns in California and New Jersey, only to rebuff the welcome she found. After deciding to break up a friendship with a distinguished intellectual, she wrote to him, "You are deaf, stupid. You are doomed. You are a failure. I pity you. I despise you." In other letters she wished people dead. Of an elderly lady who, Svetlana thought, had crossed her, she wrote, "I hope she will not be with us too long." To British Author Malcolm Muggeridge, a deeply religious...
...House's administrator for the Agency for International Development. Says he: "It looks to us as though it may well be a situation of moving starving people from one point to another point, where they will just starve in a new location." McPherson's assessment has drawn a stinging rebuff from the Ethiopians. In Washington, Charge d'Affaires Tamene Eshete accused resettlement critics of attempting to "perpetuate starvation" in his country. The northern provinces, Eshete said, are "totally barren," and "there is no point in keeping those people there...
...preceding weeks, quickly breaking up the demonstrations with tear gas, truncheons and water cannons. The government also sought to deny a permit for the August Twenty-One Commemoration Committee demonstration, arguing that it would be used by subversive elements for an assault on the President. In a rare rebuff to Marcos, the Supreme Court ruled that the rally should be permitted...